MARSHWRACK is the story of a young man who leaves his hometown of North Carolina in search of a better life. He strikes out for the Georgia coast to live the life of a commercial fisherman and to learn all he can about shrimping. Ben soon learns that the grass is not greener and that things continue to go from bad to worse, quickly.

Of Life and Times That Now And Then Rhyme includes stories from short to long that span Mark Raney's fiction writing career.